User talk:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

Sandbox: I know that a lot of people are enjoying the sandboxing I'm currently offering on my parcel (the usual comment is "it's a nice and quiet place to do stuff"). It's certainly not OS related, but I guess the sandbox puts more actual use to the SIM than the current winner parcels. I have currently set aside about 1000-2000 prims for that purpose.
Dev Sandbox: I guess it's way too large. When a dev needs land options to test features (I remember that I needed one once to check for a bug with voice enabled parcels and think it was Alissa who had the idea of offering land features for developers with basic accounts for such cases), a small place (even 16sqm) would have been enough for me to test a given feature etc. I may be wrong, but I don't foresee many such cases (but I may be misinterpreting the use of the Dev Sandbox entirely though).
Legacy winner parcels: A group owned parcel would be fine by me ... just a place to put a few prims (and maybe terraforming). However, given the large Dev sandbox, I'd personally prefer a bit more room on OpenSpace (I don't need many prims but prefer space). So maybe the previous winners could be given parcels on the openspace sim, leaving the rest there as Dev. Sandbox or even public building sandbox.
The above are just my two cents worth of comment off my mind.

I would make the layout of the regions linear, with hippotropolis in the center. The dev sandbox will be limited access, so we don't want people to not be able to fly to the FOSS Project island from the main island.
I'm not sure about the shared parcel. I think it might be better to have a 512 for each legacy winner, 1024 for previous COTYs, not grouped by year necessarily. This is only 3072 meters per year, so it's actually less land than the 1/16th shared, and leaves room to add in walkways.
I just want to reiterate I think you are doing the right thing getting rid of the public sandboxes. They really detracted from the point of the island, many of the people there had no idea that it was supposed to be for open source.
Note there is already something called the "SLDEV Sandbox", it is in region "SLDEV" and is exclusive to Glenn's developer group. It is rarely used, but it is also not connected to a region that allows public access.

I'd agree with the "dev sandbox too large" thing- Nicks' thoughts are reflected in Gig's note that the "SLDEV Sandbox... is rarely used".
Are the honourable mentions from last year taken into account ? (unlikely)
Are the Google Summer of Code people being taken into account ?
What happens if one nominee wins multiple awards ?
- Would Linden Lab give a multi-award winning Resident second place so as to avoid issues of favouritism ?

14:35, 12 August 2008 (PDT)

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